I love the Ping.fm WordPress plugin. It works great on two of my other blogs, but on my latest blog, “this one”, it decided not to work. I mean it installed properly and everything. But I was unable to add new custom triggers. After searching the web for a solution, I found none, so this is why I decided to write this post.

After taking a close look at my 2 other blogs, I was able to find out the Pingpressfm WordPress plugin wasn’t working due to the database not being updated properly. Until the developer of the Pingpress plugin fixes the problem, I found an easy fix that will get you up and running in no time by manually updating the database yourself.

First off, you will have to go to your hosting provider and log into your mysqladmin database. Once logged into your blog’s database, go to the wp_options table, then hit the browse button and search for these rows of data.

Now head over to your WordPress back office. Then go to your PingPressFM plugin settings. You should now see 3 triggers set up. You can now update these triggers to fit your desired needs through the database only. If you attempt to update them in your back office, it won’t save to the database properly.

So let’s say you want to remove the ugly [blog] from the beginning of Microblog and Status updates. All you have to do in the above code is delete it in the database where it says format=S and it will reflect as so in your WordPress back office.

Note: Very important to make a back up copy of what was previously in your wp-options tables just in case it doesn’t work for you. These are Ping.fm’s standard triggers, so they should work perfectly as long as you have them set up in your Ping.fm account.

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Sorry to hear that. This hack won’t work on every wordpress blog, it worked on 3 out of the 4 I’ve attempted it on and it’s currently still working.

Also, one more negative is that the author of the plug in has pretty much abandoned it as far as I know. This is not good news and is probably why I had to find a fix on my own and write this blog post.

One last thing I can think of that will help is if you uninstall your current version and install one version back (2.2.6), check the database to make sure everything matches this post and see if that works.

Hi everybody,
Now i have updated the pinpressfm plugin that work for the latest version of the wordpress. No need to manually change the database configuration. Install simply as before and create your triggers.